Acorn – News Stories About Acorn - Page 2

Oct 24, 2008 2:39 AM CDT

ACORN Inflated New Voter Count by 850K

Almost a third of its registrations have been rejected

(Newser) - The community organizing group ACORN and Project Vote's boast of having signed up 1.3 million new voters was off by 850,000, reports the New York Times. Just 450,000 of the registrations represent genuine new voters. Another 450,000 were already-registered voters who changed their address, and 400,...

Justices Won't Force Ohio to Check Voter Registrations

Oct 17, 2008 1:42 PM CDT

Justices Won't Force Ohio to Check Voter Registrations

Ruling is blow to state Republican party

(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled today that Ohio does not have to verify hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The court did not assess the Ohio Republic Party’s claim that registration needs cross-checks to prevent fraud, but rather ruled that the party did not...

FBI Opens Preliminary ACORN Probe

Oct 16, 2008 8:30 PM CDT

FBI Opens Preliminary ACORN Probe

Fake voter registrations from 'Mickey Mouse,' others raise concern

(Newser) - The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation. A senior law enforcement official says the agency is looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam. The group denies...

Ohio Must Check Voter Registrations: Court

Oct 15, 2008 6:00 AM CDT

Ohio Must Check Voter Registrations: Court

GOP wins fight to have new registrations cross-checked with government info

(Newser) - A federal appeals court has sided with the GOP and ordered Ohio to set up a computer system by Friday to verify new voter registrations, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Registrations must now be cross-checked with other government information. Ohio's secretary of state, accused of partisan bias by Republicans, had argued...

Mac Slams Obama on Ties to ACORN

Oct 11, 2008 7:33 PM CDT

Mac Slams Obama on Ties to ACORN

GOP says senator represented group as a lawyer in 1990s

(Newser) - The GOP launched a new attack on Barack Obama yesterday, linking him to a community-based group accused this week of voter fraud. A new video from John McCain's camp claims that Obama went to bat for ACORN as a lawyer in the 1990s and once worked there as a community...

Liberal Group
Files Fake
Voter Forms

Oct 10, 2008 8:43 AM CDT

Liberal Group Files Fake Voter Forms

ACORN under scrutiny in several states; used names of the dead

(Newser) - Authorities have discovered more than 2,000 phony registration forms filled in by a liberal activist group in an Indiana county, CNN reports. The forms from ACORN—already being probed for alleged fraud in Nevada and Missouri—included the names of dead people and sandwich shop Jimmy Johns. A lawyer...

Housing Bill Funds
Democratic Ally

Jul 31, 2008 9:36 AM CDT

Housing Bill Funds Democratic Ally

Group sets out to register the poor

(Newser) - Nestled in the housing bill President Bush signed yesterday is an acronym Republicans don’t like one bit: ACORN. The Wall Street Journal reports that the group is among the many housing-related nonprofits the bill hands cash to, but Republicans grumble that it does more than housing. It’s also...